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More than their names were changed

For my money, this is one of the best video interpretations of a classic song ever done; it adds a new dimension to the story being told in the original. The song itself flew in the face of almost everything country music was all about back then. K.T. Oslin, like Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and other new voices, changed everything. 80’s Ladies won the County Music Association Song of the Year in 1988 and Oslin was named Female Vocalist of the Year in 1989.

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Jack – I enjoy your references to America’s poets with a twang. I got my love of classic country music from the “hillbillies” who came north each year to work my Uncle John Gatti’s mushroom houses who always had a “gitar” handy, and the GM and Chrysler workers who played the juke box filled with Hank and the boys at my grandparent’s cafe in Kaolin.

I suspect you did not pick it up from Jack and Anna, so how did you come by it?

I liked country/folk as a kid, John, and even though I got heavily into jazz in college, always kept a candle burning. Seeing the likes of John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Kris Kristofersson, Steve Goodman and so many others at the Main Point turned it into a blaze. I still have the record collection of my twenties and thirties and while it is dominated by those performers and their female counterparts and not a little Dylan, it also has the Stones, the Beatles, Sinatra, show tunes and on and on. I am eclectic, am I. The country/folk stuff generally gets posted here because most good songs tell a story and make a point. I like that.

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